President Xi returns home from visits to Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus

BEIJING, May 12-- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan returned to Beijing on Tuesday night after visits to Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus.

Xi's visit to Kazakhstan is at the invitation of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

At the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Xi visited Russia from Friday to Sunday and attended the ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow.

Xi also paid a state visit to Belarus from Sunday to Tuesday as guest of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.